Shifting Alliances

Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker was holding court with a group of reporters in a New York hotel meeting room following the official announcement that his carrier would be joining the oneworld airline alliance. “Things are changing in the Middle East and in the global aviation industry,” he said. “When you cannot defeat your competitors, you join them.”
Those who have followed Al Baker’s stewardship of Qatar Airways know his intended meaning was that the ...

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